Marriage

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 1 Samuel 18:25 OT

  Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

• Hosea 3:2 OT

  So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

• Genesis 29:22 OT

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Judges 14:12 OT

  Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

• Esther 2:18 OT

  Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

• Matthew 22:11 NT

  But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

• Matthew 22:12 NT

  and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

• John 2:1-5 NT

  The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” Jesus said to her, “Woman,…

• Ruth 4:1-11 OT

  Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down. Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and…

• Isaiah 8:1-3 OT

  Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.” I went to the…

• Deuteronomy 24:5 OT

  When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

• Isaiah 49:18 OT

  Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

• Jeremiah 2:32 OT

  “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

• Psalms 45:12 OT

  The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

• Matthew 25:6 NT

  But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

• Isaiah 61:10 OT

  I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns…

• Genesis 29:20 OT

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Ruth 4:10 OT

  Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You…

• Hosea 12:12 OT

  Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

• Judges 21:21-23 OT

  and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. It shall be, when their fathers or…

• 1 Samuel 17:25 OT

  The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 18:17 OT

  Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

• 1 Samuel 18:21 OT

  Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

• Judges 1:12 OT

  Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”